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[Early mod. E. poun, pown; Which (after) th' Indians parch, and pun, and knead, And thereof make them a most holesom bread. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. Oh, brauely said, Ned Spicing! the honestest lad that euer pound spice in a mortar. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 10). I care not, though, like An achars is, I were pounded to death in a mortar. Webster, White Devil, v. 1. II. in trans. 1. To strike repeated blows; hammer continuously. I found all our guns pounding at the Martinière. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, xviii. 2. To walk with heavy steps; plod laboriously or heavily. What you don't know about cro -country riding in these parts that horse does,. for he's pounded up and down acro this Territory for the last five years. The Century , XXXVII. 900.